Unknown language: Ta Ra

[MingRaymond]

I have just watched an TV programme about art. The artist at last said 'Ta Ra'. I think it means 'byebye', but what is the language?

Ming

 

[cityoflight]

In English!! But it's quite dialectic - it's used in the North of England more.

 

[Whodunit]

It's English.

It's actually two independent idioms. "Ta-ra" is how northerners pronounce "Ta-ta" meaning goodbye, which is used all over England; the Oxford English Dic. says this is "a nursery version of 'goodbye' used playfully by adults" and gives the first sighting of it in 1837.
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[MingRaymond]

I see. Thank you. I find that the artist is from Scotland! So I presume that it is also used there.

Ming